Full VATSIM flight | YSSY-NFFN | Oceanic Position Reports | CPDLC | Joining V1 on his Long Haul
I decided to join popular flight sim YouTuber (and real-world A32x captain) V1 on part of his long haul flight from Sydney (YSSY) to Los Angeles (KLAX). As I am flying an A320 home cockpit I elected to land in the Fiji Islands in Nadi (NFFN). Nadi has a special place in my logbook as it was the site of the funniest events I witnessed during WorldFlight 2022 (see this video: • WorldFlight 2022 | The Nadi Bits | Fun at ... ).
On this flight, luck had it that V1 spotted our "cute little narrow body" (his words, not mine) as we were climbing over the airport before making our turn to the east and head out over the water.
Another cool aspect of this flight is that we had VATSIM oceanic controllers for both Brisbane Radio and Nadi Radio so we had to provide position reports at regular intervals. Nadi Radio even offered CPDLC communication for the later part of the flight. This was the perfect opportunity to test our new DCDU and some of the reporting features I had never used before.
So make sure to check out some of the key moments below:
12:00 Pushback
16:53 Taxi
26:23 Takeoff
30:40 "That cute little narrow body" (V1)
31:32 Downtown Sydney on the right
1:08:20 First class service
1:19:25 AAL72 overtaking us
1:42:46 Brisbane Radio (SELCAL check)
1:48:25 Nadi Radio (position report for UBLIN)
2:01:00 Nadi Radio (position report for VIRAR)
2:33:03 Nadi Radio (position report for PUPEX)
2:38:04 Nadi Radio offering CPDLC
2:47:14 Nadi CPDLC (initial message received)
2:56:32 Nadi CPDLC (sending custom text message)
3:32:15 Short final
3:37:55 Parking at the gate
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